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Christmas Eve
- Two sheets of delicious chewy oatmeal cranberry cookies, plus enough leftover dough to scoop out a few more batches the following day. The KitchenAid mixer made short work of prep (I really need to get one of those after I move), and the walnuts and allspice filled the kitchen with the most amazing scent.
- The arrival of a package from Japan containing my new phone case (yay!), plus the best car cell phone charger… possibly ever? Internet, it is a Hello Kitty head, and her cheeks light up while power is running to it. Yes, please, and thank you very much.
- Reminiscing, however briefly, with my Facebook timeline. Sigh. Life is lovely.
- Scurrying to my sister’s house down the road to provide a little company through the waning evening.
I hope everyone’s holidays have been wonderful and magical and full of joy and laughter and sunshine and the absolute minimum of leg injuries. I am a little concerned that my right foot might actually be broken. I walk with a limp and probably look pretty silly, but my strange hobbling is doing the job for now, which beats sprawling out on a couch and beckoning my family members to my bedside like some Victorian maiden weakened by consumption.
Anyway, I have a doctor’s appointment at 8:15 AM (>_<) on the 28th, so I guess we’ll see if I get to keep the leg.
It’s almost a quarter to one now. I should probably sleep soon so Santa can sneak in and leave a job under the tree for me.
gpoy
Oh my god I WANT THIS BREAD. THIS BREAD YOU GUYSSSSSS
STOP
EVERYTHING
oh my god heart palpitations
There’s a little part of me that kind of wishes that I could leave crappy OKC awards when Certain People show up in my match results. “Eye Candy: Still want my money back. I take cash. Thanks.”
That makes it sound as though I bought him like an escort, so let me clarify: an escort would have been cheaper. And probably wouldn’t have eaten as much of my kimchi.
A lemur eats from a refrigerated watermelon to refresh itself in Rome’s zoo, July, 12, 2011. Zoo staff offered animals frozen and refrigerated fruit to refresh them as temperatures reached 104 Fahrenheit. (Rome Bioparco Fundation/AP Photo)
aaaaangh 8V
So I’m on vacation! Until fall, I’m squared away on classes (yes, I passed), and of course that means I must make up for lost time by cooking a lot of things. Tonight’s attempt: homemade bao zi. Lovely pillowy bao is one of my favorite foods, but of course the frozen products you find are mostly the traditional pork-filled buns, so I took matters into my own hands…
A bag of mixed flour from the local Asian grocery ($1.79!) plus some basic ingredients produced the dough, which was pretty tricky to work with. It was so cheap that I’ll probably give it another good shot to see if I can work out the kinks, but as you can see, this first attempt wasn’t very pretty. I resolved to eat the least attractive ones first, hence what you see here. I apologize to any and all ethnic Chinese who might be looking this way. Hell, I apologize to everyone.
That said, appearances aside, they’re delicious (if I may say so myself). They’re filled with a mix of shiitake mushrooms, carrots, green beans, sprouts, onions, and scallions, sauteed with a bit of garlic and sesame oil and then cooked down in a slightly sweet thickened soy sauce glaze. The bag made twelve of the little guys; I just scarfed down three, and the rest are chillin’ in my freezer. Looking forward to lunch tomorrow!
